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PSYCHOTHERAPY Stripping Body & Mind Group-psychotherapy marathons lasting 24 to 48 hours are being staged by many psychologists in the Los Angeles area. At the end of these, noticed Psychotherapist Paul Bindrim, when the sessions had gone well, group members tended to shed some of their clothes...
Could it be, Bindrim wondered, that what he calls a man's "tower of clothes" is not only a safeguard for his privacy, but also a self-imposed constraint to keep out people he fears? If sp, a man who disrobed physically might be bet ter able to disrobe emotionally...
...While Bindrim was mulling this over, Dr. Abraham Maslow, this year's pres ident of the American Psychological Association, described psychologists' training groups as "a kind of psychologi cal nudism under careful direction...
Maslow speculated that if physical nudity were added, "people would go away more spontaneous, less guarded, less defensive, not only about the shape of their behinds, but freer and more in nocent about their minds as well." That clinched it for Bindrim. If some patients respond better in groups than to individual therapy, he reasoned, then nude groups might be even more effective...
Nothing Overt. Those invited included a nucleus of people already in some sort of group therapy. The ten men and ten women who signed up for Bindrim's experiment included singletons as well as married and about-to-be-married couples. Among their problems, Bindrim believes, were sexual difficulties resulting from puritan teachings that nudity is shameful...